And I have feltA presence that disturbs me with the joyOf elevated thoughts; a sense sublimeOf something far more deeply interfused,Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,And the round ocean and the living air,And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;A motion and a spirit, that impels 100All thinking things, all objects of all thought,And rolls through all things.

enjambed lineA line of poetry that is run on to the following line without any pause:

Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hungListening, a gentle shock of mild surpriseHas carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents; or the visible sceneWould enter unawares into his mindWith all its solemn imagery . . .

metaphorA figure of speech that associates one term with another. If we say, "Time is a river," we're noting a correspondence between the two.A metaphor has two parts: a tenor and a vehicle. The tenor ("time") is the literal subject of the metaphor, and the vehicle ("river") is afigurative reference to which the literal subject is implicitly being compared. See Follow a Metaphor.

meterA regular tempo established by recurring numbers of feet within a line. Some common patterns are dimeter, two feet per line; trimeter, three feet per line; tetrameter, four feet per line; pentameter, five feet per line; hexameter, six feet per line. Thus, a line with four trochaic feet is called trochaic tetrameter. A line with five iambic feet is iambic pentameter.

rhythmThe overall pacing and tempo of a poem as it is read. The poem's meter plays a role, but other factors such as sentence structure and emotional intensity also influence rhythm.

scanTo mark the meter of a poem by identifying patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

simileA figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison. If we say, "Time is like a river," we're noting a correspondence, as in a metaphor, with the crucial difference that the comparison of a simile is made explicit, by use of the word "like," or in some cases the word "as."

stanzaA grouping of lines within a poem. A group of two lines is called a couplet. A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line stanza is a quintet. Two other common lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave, eight lines.

sonnetA traditional poetic form comprised of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. See Robert Frost's "Design" for an example of an Italian sonnet and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73" for an example of an English sonnet.

synecdocheA type of figurative language which uses a part to refer to a whole, for example, using "wheels" for "car," as in, "I need some new wheels."

verse paragraphLine groups of irregular length, which function much like paragraphs in prose.

villanelleA nineteen line poem with five three line stanzas and one concluding four line stanza. The stanzas feature an intricate pattern of repetition, as illustrated in Theodore Roethke's "The Waking" and Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."